When hypercorrection forces an adverb to become an adjective

About a week after I posted this on my blog, a reader informed me that the OED had myriads of examples of 'I feel badly' with presumably the same meaning as 'I feel bad'. The rational part of me could not accept this because as long as 'feel' is used as a copular verb, there is no way an adverb could follow in that manner. It would make nonsense of the sentence. However, 'feel' is an unusual word in that apart from its copulative use, it can also function as an ordinary main verb. Because of the semantic uniqueness of 'feel', might 'I feel badly' be synonymous with 'I have a bad feeling', with 'badly' not functioning as a subject complement, which it cannot under the circumstances? But it still sounded to me as a very odd way of saying it. I was very tempted to dismiss it as a case of hypercorrection that went on to be accepted as correct by reason of its frequency of use.

Frankly, you should say nothing if you know nothing

I was very much surprised when following my last blog post Grammar Ignoramuses Strike Again on Quora, Frank Dauenhauer whose laughably erroneous Quora post I commented on, reacted with seething rage. He made furious comments on that post (you may read them for yourself - just click on the link above) and he also sent me an angry email. He then posted on his Quora page my entire blog post (which is fine - I have nothing to hide) and he tells his Quora followers that he has been "savagely maligned" by me. Why he went ballistic escapes me totally.

As I informed him, every word I wrote in that blogpost is true. When I call someone a grammar ignoramus, I am merely stating a fact. And quite apart from that mistake made by Frank in his Quora answer, I have other evidence that corroborates my assertion that he is ignorant of grammar. If you have been following my blog, you should know that this was not the first time I pointed out Frank's errors. He has made many errors, some of which are pretty outrageous. It's hard to tell which one of his errors takes the biscuit but I am fairly certain what I am about to reveal to you in this article will have many of you in stitches.